Glen_lcfc Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Henderson 8 - helped keep us in the game with some good blocks - kicking STILL suspect though Maybury 6 - Not as good as his last two times out - looked tired Johansson 8 - Solid Kisnorbo 8 - good performance McAuley 9 - turning out to be a great player. Yeates 7- Not in the game enough Porter 8- Had chances to score but generally another typically good performance Johnson 8 - Strongest player in the team today and boy was his presence required. Jarrett 7 Didnt see too much of the ball but looked far more comfatable today Hume 7 - only one shot of any note in a game not for strikers! Horse 9.5 - Storming game should have had 2 goals if not more and offered such a lot in attack Elvis 0 - Doesn't care, Doesn't win anything, Doesn't offer anything - should be sacked for incompetance Not a great game to watch really with little goal mouth action and a very scrappy/lucky goal. rode our luck big style in the closing stages and did that annoying thing where all 11 players are defending in the box and there was no one to clear to! But well done. Travelling Blue army was good, quite a few made the journey and once the Steward got bored of telling the 5 of us who wanted to stand to sit down the atmosphere began properly and progressed steadily till the final whistle when we were in full voice. Lots of Flask Brigaders though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox123 Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Henderson 8 - helped keep us in the game with some good blocks - kicking STILL suspect though Maybury 6 - Not as good as his last two times out - looked tired Johansson 8 - Solid Kisnorbo 8 - good performance McAuley 9 - turning out to be a great player. Yeates 7- Not in the game enough Porter 8- Had chances to score but generally another typically good performance Johnson 8 - Strongest player in the team today and boy was his presence required. Jarrett 7 Didnt see too much of the ball but looked far more comfatable today Hume 7 - only one shot of any note in a game not for strikers! Horse 9.5 - Storming game should have had 2 goals if not more and offered such a lot in attack Elvis 0 - Doesn't care, Doesn't win anything, Doesn't offer anything - should be sacked for incompetance Not a great game to watch really with little goal mouth action and a very scrappy/lucky goal. rode our luck big style in the closing stages and did that annoying thing where all 11 players are defending in the box and there was no one to clear to! But well done. Travelling Blue army was good, quite a few made the journey and once the Steward got bored of telling the 5 of us who wanted to stand to sit down the atmosphere began properly and progressed steadily till the final whistle when we were in full voice. Lots of Flask Brigaders though! Barber said he was causing them problems when he came on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lookwhaticando Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Barber said he was causing them problems when he came on For us... breaking up our own attacks by being offside? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc_jme Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Elvis got involved today from what Barber said - he missed a 1 on 1, was offside once or twice, broke up a few of our counter attacks and missed the open goal which led to their own goal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Henderson 8 (Another extraordinary clean sheet. Must have felt like a fairground target on the rifle stall) Maybury 7.5 (Tried to play football from defence. Failed miserably to find anyone to join him except Hughes later on) Kisnorbo 7 (Valiant winner of one of the luckiest clean sheets ever seen in a city shirt) McAuley 7 (Mostly dominant but left for dead in the air, like Kissa, on a couple of occasions) Nils 7 (Burnley rained crosses from Nils side rather like bombs o London in the blitz but still the bastion stood firm. Yeates 5 (One early burst of electrical excitement and that was about that) Johnson 4 (Driving midfield player?. More like damp squid. Porter laid him a square pass once anticipating a three or four metre advance but Johnson hadn't moved forward an inch - and never intended too. Anonymous and ineffective the whole night. No energy, no drive, no creativity, we were destroyed in midfeld). Jarrett 5 (Huffed and puffed occasionally but in the manner of a shunter not an express) Porter 6 (Made the panic for the goal which gave us three points. Rarely got a worthwhile pass and had no passing and moving around him whatsoev er from our team. Hume 6 (Effort without effect) Horsfield 5 (inconsequential) Sub: Hughes 7 (several clever, probing passes almost gave Hammond a goal) Hammond 6 (caused more panic in Burnley defnce in his short appearance than anyone else in the whole game. Loosely involved in the own goal which was as shoddy as the days performance. Kelly's contribution: 0 (I won't condone that sort of football from anyone or for any reason, win or not) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lookwhaticando Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Your MOTMs are Henderson or Maybury. That's a turn up for the books... not because it's from your mind/keyboard... just in general... Maybury's not the kind of player you expect people to rate as an 8... more a steady 6 or 7. If you see what I'm getting at. In fairness, in my opinion, based on the commentary... Thracian's ratings are closer to reality. How we can have so many 7s and 8s when the fact of the matter is we sounded all over the placed, constantly hemmed in our own half (third!?) of the pitch and with little or no effect going forward... beggars belief. Judging by what I heard, my interpretation is that something was seriously amiss in the middle of the park for us to be pegged back all the time. It's not for me to rate the players though, as I didn't see them in action. I eagerly await the opinions of those who saw the players... we'll soon find out if the three points has seriously misted our fans' eyesight or not. As I said... just my interpretation of the game courtesy of Radio Leicester commentary. I anticipate a vicious verbal attack for trying to interpret anything heard on Radio Leicester... especially from the mouth of Jon 'Pedro Mendes has scored for PSV' Barber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfieldfox. Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Only 2 ratings and both very different! Thracians ratings seem comatible with those of Barber and Taggs on the radio commentary. Still a wins a win. Maybe its been too many minutes on the field for our loanees and returners from injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teblin Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Kelly's contribution: 0 (I won't condone that sort of football from anyone or for any reason, win or not) You have to grind results out, winning 1-0 and playing badly is a good sign. Teams who can do that get out of this division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hullfox Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Henderson 7 - Only because of two fine saves. His kicking was shit. Maybury 5.5 - Beaten every time by his man. Kisnorbo 7 - Solid enough McAuley 7 - Soild enough Nils 6 - Slightly better than Maybes, at least he put in some solid tackles. Yeates 5 - Ineffective tonight Johnson 5 - Like everyone was dragged in too deep but made some telling tackles Jarrett 5 - Great energy once more but overall a bad day at the office Porter 4 - Don't be fooled, he was shocking tonight but in good company. He looked as though he was trying to hide a lot of the time. Burnley had his card well and truly marked. Hume 7 - As our first line of defence he helped by not starting too deep. Always a handful without ever threatening seriously. Horsfield 6 - Looked like an old player who had ran himself into the ground three days earlier. Showed some good leadership at times. Sub: Hughes 6 - Tried to be different by switching play but soon brought himself down to the standards of the rest. Hammond 4 - Stormed off at the end because of the rollickings he got from others. When our backs were against the wall in the last part of the game, his positional awareness and running off the ball were non existent. As for Kelly, read his comments about scarpering back down the motorway with the points. He knows we were bad but how many times has this happened to us at home? The match thread on here slated him for taking off Hume but we won and at this stage of the season I'll take an ugly win to set us up for the better things to come under MM. As for the crowd - where were the Ultras? And, believe it or not, the refrain of "Small town near Blackpool" could actually be heard. And some on here moan about others not joining in......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellyjo Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 We all know how difficult Burnley are to beat at Turfmoor, in fact I think this may be the 1st time we have beaten them since being back in the championship. It was a scrappy game by the sounds of it & certainly not one that we will remember, but a win's a win as already said & that's 3 wins in 3 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zingari Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 We all know how difficult Burnley are to beat at Turfmoor, in fact I think this may be the 1st time we have beaten them since being back in the championship. It was a scrappy game by the sounds of it & certainly not one that we will remember, but a win's a win as already said & that's 3 wins in 3 games. yes agreed ; even taggs said on RL that it was sometimes essential to grind out these results and anyone with long enough memories will recall that Leicester were quite often referred to as "grinders" under MON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Henderson 7 Maybury 6 Kisnorbo 7 McAuley 7 Nils 6 Yeates 4 Johnson 4 Jarrett 4 Porter 5 Hume 5 Horsfield 4 Sub: Hughes 5 Hammond 5 Another diabolical game that wasn't worth the entrance fee, never mind the 6 hours getting there and back. We had absolutely no intention of taking the game to a team that hadn't won for 14 games FF - I feel cheated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajax Treesdown Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Henderson 8 (Another extraordinary clean sheet. Must have felt like a fairground target on the rifle stall) Maybury 7.5 (Tried to play football from defence. Failed miserably to find anyone to join him except Hughes later on) Kisnorbo 7 (Valiant winner of one of the luckiest clean sheets ever seen in a city shirt) McAuley 7 (Mostly dominant but left for dead in the air, like Kissa, on a couple of occasions) Nils 7 (Burnley rained crosses from Nils side rather like bombs o London in the blitz but still the bastion stood firm. Yeates 5 (One early burst of electrical excitement and that was about that) Johnson 4 (Driving midfield player?. More like damp squid. Porter laid him a square pass once anticipating a three or four metre advance but Johnson hadn't moved forward an inch - and never intended too. Anonymous and ineffective the whole night. No energy, no drive, no creativity, we were destroyed in midfeld). Jarrett 5 (Huffed and puffed occasionally but in the manner of a shunter not an express) Porter 6 (Made the panic for the goal which gave us three points. Rarely got a worthwhile pass and had no passing and moving around him whatsoev er from our team. Hume 6 (Effort without effect) Horsfield 5 (inconsequential) Sub: Hughes 7 (several clever, probing passes almost gave Hammond a goal) Hammond 6 (caused more panic in Burnley defnce in his short appearance than anyone else in the whole game. Loosely involved in the own goal which was as shoddy as the days performance. Kelly's contribution: 0 (I won't condone that sort of football from anyone or for any reason, win or not) Are you Forest in disguise??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holly Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Hendo 7- kicking dreadful again, some good saves though. Maybury 5 Kisnorbo 8 Mcauley 8 Nils 7 Porter 8 Jarret 7 Johnson 4- might aswell not have played, thought he was utter dross Yeates 7 Hume 7 shouldnt of been taken off Horse 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 IMO only Kisnorbo and McAuley are worth more more than a 6 for last nights performance. (oh and henderson) Our midfield couldn't get a grip on the game a tall. Porter should not have been on the pitch and just got muscled out of it all the time. Wheres Yeates was as bad. Jarret hardly made a pass. but did work very hard, and was full of running. He's the kind of midfielder we need. But just one thats a a lot better would be nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STUHILL Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Kelly's contribution: 0 (I won't condone that sort of football from anyone or for any reason, win or not) You have to grind results out, winning 1-0 and playing badly is a good sign. Teams who can do that get out of this division. Well it's like Kelly said the last time we played there we were the much better team and lost, so maybe winning ugly was actually a good tactic. I admit we were riding our luck a bit but still 3 points and another clean sheet. Still, I think a performance like that on Saturday and we could be 3 down by half time!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gist Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Henderson 7 Maybury 5 Kisnorbo 7 McAuley 7 Nisse 6 Yeates 6 Johnson 5 Jarret 5 Porter 6 Hume 6 Horsfield 6 Subs: Hammond 6 Hughes 7 and Stearman 6 I actually thought we won the game due to the subs that came on yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynny Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Porter sounded a lot worse on the radio than perhaps he was, then. It sounded like he didn't get a touch in the entire first half. I think his name was said something like twice in the second half. Johnson didn't sound THAT bad either, but that's Barber, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Porter sounded a lot worse on the radio than perhaps he was, then. It sounded like he didn't get a touch in the entire first half. I think his name was said something like twice in the second half. Johnson didn't sound THAT bad either, but that's Barber, I guess. I thought Porter was a complete waste of time last night. Didn't do a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gist Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Porter sounded a lot worse on the radio than perhaps he was, then. It sounded like he didn't get a touch in the entire first half. I think his name was said something like twice in the second half. Johnson didn't sound THAT bad either, but that's Barber, I guess. That was the worst I've seen Porter play. He didn't get much service and when he did he lost it. The players wouldn't keep hold of the ball, they just got rid of it and the majority of the time it went straight to a Burnley player so he couldn't make as many runs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 IMO only Kisnorbo and McAuley are worth more more than a 6 for last nights performance. (oh and henderson) Our midfield couldn't get a grip on the game a tall. Porter should not have been on the pitch and just got muscled out of it all the time. Wheres Yeates was as bad. Jarret hardly made a pass. but did work very hard, and was full of running. He's the kind of midfielder we need. But just one thats a a lot better would be nice! If Porter hadn't been on the pitch to slide that pass across which led to the own goal we would never have won. He got no ball and there was no-one running off him. The guy had no chance, any more than Hume or Horsfield with absolutely zero support from central midfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Honcho Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 IMO only Kisnorbo and McAuley are worth more more than a 6 for last nights performance. (oh and henderson) Our midfield couldn't get a grip on the game a tall. Porter should not have been on the pitch and just got muscled out of it all the time. Wheres Yeates was as bad. Jarret hardly made a pass. but did work very hard, and was full of running. He's the kind of midfielder we need. But just one thats a a lot better would be nice! What goes around comes around we were all over Burnley first home game of the season. Who won? It's a results based industry and as long as your team is winning you shouldn't be slagging them off!! ............at least wait until Saturday night after WBA stick four past us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooper Steve's shin Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Hammond 4 - Stormed off at the end because of the rollickings he got from others. That's interesting. I noticed in the warm-up on Saturday that a couple of players had a go at him for messing up that odd "jump and sprint" routine they do at the very end. He didn't seem happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harpendenfox Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 Am I alone in already hating the phrase 'winning ugly' which seems to have entered the footballing phrase book in recent weeks. Does it mean deliberately playing badly and hoping you get away with it? In which case it strikes me as being a pretty poor plan. Why not just try and play better than the opposition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 21 February 2007 Share Posted 21 February 2007 As for the crowd - where were the Ultras? It was a school night - are you mad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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